The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) has announced the pre-candidacy of Edmilson Costa for the presidency of the Republic, along with the presentation of the Communist Platform for Rio de Janeiro.
Brazilian Communist Party announces candidate for presidency
The pre-candidacy and the election platform are centered around the struggles of the people: with workers, with youth, with the peripheries and favelas, and with social and labor movements. Furthermore, dialogue and convergence with anti-racist, feminist, and anti-LGBTphobia causes are brought out for the campaign. Their goal is to strengthen popular organization and point the way to transforming the society towards building popular power and a new society where exploitation and oppression can be overcome so that a more just, egalitarian, and harmonious human sociability may flourish.
“A long-time activist for the socialist cause since his youth, Edmilson Costa holds a doctorate in economics from Unicamp, with postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the same institution. He is the author of several works on contemporary capitalism and the global economic crisis, as well as books of poetry.”
Edmilson Costa was a student leader and was persecuted during the period of the 1964-1985 military dictatorship, and he was present in all movements defending democratic freedoms, popular power, and national sovereignty. Edmilson Costa's pre-candidacy aims to enrich the debate about Brazil and present a set of proposals to combat the dramatic social crisis, the precarious living conditions of workers, and the confrontation with US imperialism, and to reaffirm solidarity with all peoples fighting for their sovereignty and self-determination.
PCB (Brazilian Communist Party) describes this as a decisive moment for Brazil. Millions of families face low wages, live in degrading housing conditions or lack access to decent housing, and cope with the daily reality of chaotic transportation, precarious sanitation, deficient healthcare, and public services that do not reach everyone. Meanwhile, bankers, large business owners, and agribusiness owners continue to accumulate gigantic profits at the expense of the working people. PCB moves with the aim to build a political alternative with the purpose of returning the country to the Brazilian people.
“The time has come to build a new project for Brazil from the perspective of popular power and socialism.”